Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Yale College Pre-Reunion 2012 event in Boston -- Saturday, January 21, 2012

Save the Date!

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Yale College Pre-Reunion 2012 event in Boston

Doorprize: Free Reunion 2012 Registration Fee!*

Your Yale College Reunion is coming up! What better way to get in the spirit than attend this Reunion Preview Reception and spend time with classmates and others from the Boston area who may be making the trip to New Haven for their reunion. Interested? Read on!

Meet up with Classmates and other Yalies who are in the same reunion cycle as you—Alumni whose class year ends with “2” or “7.” Wear your Yale and Class regalia and kick-off your reunion with us!
Alumni attendees will be entered in a drawing with a free reunion* first prize.

Here’s the skinny:

What: Yale College 2012 Reunion Preview Reception in Boston—come and enjoy great company and appetizers. There will be a cash bar.

Who: Classmates and friends and families of Yale College Classes of ’47, ’52, ’57, ’62, ’67, ’72, ’77, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’97, ’02, and ’07 who live in and around Boston.

Where: TBD (Look for a registration communication in mid-December announcing the venue

When: Saturday, January 21, 2012; 6 – 9 pm

How much: $25 registration fee includes appetizers and lots of great company. There will be a cash bar.

Why: Because once every five years isn’t enough!

*Prize is for Yale College Alumni only, is not transferrable and does not include accommodation or travel expenses.

Yale College Pre-Reunion 2012 event in Washington, D.C. -- January 29, 2012

Save the Date!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Yale College Pre-Reunion 2012 event in Washington, D.C.

Doorprize: Free Reunion 2012 Registration Fee!*

Your Yale College Reunion is coming up! What better way to get in the spirit than attend this Reunion Preview Reception and spend time with classmates and others from the Washington, D.C. area who may be making the trip to New Haven for their reunion. Interested? Read on!

Meet up with Classmates and other Yalies who are in the same reunion cycle as you—Alumni whose class year ends with “2” or “7.” Wear your Yale and Class regalia and kick-off your reunion with us!

Alumni attendees will be entered in a drawing with a free reunion* first prize.

Here’s the skinny:

What: Yale College 2012 Reunion Preview Reception in Washington, D.C.—come and enjoy great company and appetizers. There will be a cash bar.

Who: Classmates and friends and families of Yale College Classes of ’47, ’52, ’57, ’62, ’67, ’72, ’77, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’97, ’02, and ’07 who live in and around Washington, D.C.

Where: TBD (Look for a registration communication in mid-December announcing the venue)

When: Sunday, January 29, 2012; 6 – 9 pm

How much: $25 registration fee includes appetizers and lots of great company. There will be a cash bar.

Why: Because once every five years isn’t enough!

*Prize is for Yale College Alumni only, is not transferrable and does not include accommodation or travel expenses.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Yale Alumni Service Corps -- Video of the China 2011 Trip

If you have ever wondered what a Yale Alumni Service Corps trip is like, you should check out this video of the most recent trip to China.  Very moving.


China Internal from Brian Wimer on Vimeo.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Important Reunion News

This coming week -- the week of November 28 -- the Association of Yale Alumni is going to be sending out a blast e-mail about our reunion.

When the e-mail goes out, blocks of rooms at the area hotels will be released.  They will not last long.  As soon as you get the AYA e-mail, please reserve your rooms for reunion.

Rumor has it that many in our class are trying to stay at The Study, which is a very nice place, a short walk from the festivities.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

YaleNews | Yale plus ONE: Alumni join forces to promote global service and advocacy

Check this out . . . thanks in large measure to classmate Darcy Troy Pollock:

The Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) and ONE, a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease particularly in Africa, are launching a strategic partnership to promote global service and advocacy by linking the Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) with ONE’s education and advocacy programs. The Yale-ONE partnership will begin in 2012, with the YASC Africa Project in Cape Coast and Yamoransa, Ghana, July 27–Aug. 7, 2012.

YaleNews | Yale plus ONE: Alumni join forces to promote global service and advocacy

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Science Ink: Carl Zimmer Catalogs the Tattoos of Science Nerds | Brain Pickings

Our very own Carl Zimmer is coming out with a new book about science-related tattoos, which he co-authored with Mary Roach.  Click below to see some of the ink from the book.  Looks pretty cool.

What kind of tattoos do our classmates have?

Science Ink: Carl Zimmer Catalogs the Tattoos of Science Nerds | Brain Pickings

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Roammeo

There is a new website and app that you should definitely check out.  It is an app that helps you locate events of interest near you.  Right now, the app only has New Haven and Yale events.  Soon, it will roll out throughout the country, I am told.  Put together by Yale students, it is quite a neat little app.  The next time you are in New Haven, you should try it.

Roammeo

Yale Alumni Service Corps -- Nicaragua 2012

Come join us this March 10th-17th, 2012 as we fly into the capital city of Managua then travel inland to the vibrant town of Matagalpa in the coffee growing district. From this base we will travel up gravel roads past fields of corn, beans and coffee into the rain forest to impoverished communities on the mountain side. El Castillo is the second village up the mountain road and while it is the site of this year's March program by YASC, we will also invite the people of the adjacent communities to join us. These small remote villages lack clean water, medical care and educational opportunities - we need to help change this!
Act quickly, because space is running out.  For more information, click on the link below.
Nicaragua 2012 - Main Page

Yale Alumni Service Corps–Ghana Trip

The Yale Alumni Service Corp has two great trips scheduled for 2012 – one is to Nicaragua and the other is to Ghana. 

Here is the scoop on Ghana. 

From July 28 through August 6 (then back to Accra) you, our volunteers, will be stationed in the town of Cape Coast where the University of Cape Coast has been working to help the local communities including Yamoransa to address the critical issues of poverty, health and education.

Yamoransa is a community of approximately 4,700 people situated on the main road that runs between Accra and Cape Coast. There are three schools and many children in the community. The main business of the community is the production of fante kenke, a typically Ghanaian food made of corn, primarily prepared by the women. For a variety of reasons and particularly because the women are the producers of fante kenke, there is a high drop-out rate of girls from the schools. In the early grades school there are slightly more girls than boys yet the drop-out rate for girls is so high that by 10th grade, 70% of the students are boys. There are no medical facilities in the community.


The Chief of Yamoransa in cooperation with the University has identified a number of projects that would provide meaningful assistance to the community. We are prepared to help them in many ways from medical services to education to micro-business consulting to needs assessment.
Click below for all of the details
Ghana 2012 - Main Page

YaleNews | ‘Doctorates without Borders’ alumni assembly panel highlights 150th anniversary of Ph.D.


Watch live streaming video from yale at livestream.com

The Yale Alumni Assembly took place over the last few days.  The Assembly is a chance for Yale volunteers from around the world to come to New Haven to learn from each other and to learn about what is happening at the University. 

One of the sessions was livestreamed for all to see.  Click on the video above to hear what turned out to be a very interesting panel.


YaleNews | ‘Doctorates without Borders’ alumni assembly panel highlights 150th anniversary of Ph.D.

Yale Sustainable Food Project

I went to the Yale Alumni Assembly this past week and learned quite a bit about what is happening at the University.  I will highlight a few of those things over the coming few months, so you can see some of the things you might want to check out during reunion. 

This is a piece about the Yale Sustainable Food Project.  Check it out.



Yale Sustainable Food Project - YouTube

Judicial Decision-Making - C-SPAN Video Library

C-SPAN recent featured one of our classmates, Brett Kavanaugh, discussing judicial decision-making. 
If you haven’t been following Brett, he has been very busy on the DC Circuit Court.  He was recently a dissenting voice on a decision that related to President Obama’s health care plan.  For more on the decision, click here.
Judicial Decision-Making - C-SPAN Video Library